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I Strapped a Computer to My Face and Went to the Pet Store
Day one with the Meta Ray-Ban glasses. First stop: the pet store. This is the honest account of a technologist learning new hardware in public — one errand at a time.

Rich Washburn
Apr 113 min read


You Can Protest AI. You Cannot Stop It.
Someone firebombed Sam Altman's house. And while we argue about whether to pause, China is not pausing.

Rich Washburn
Apr 114 min read


They're Not Releasing It to You. That's the Point.
Anthropic locked its most powerful model behind a program called Glass Wing. OpenAI's next model isn't going public either. Two stories, same week, same pattern — and a former CEH has thoughts on what it actually means for the attack surface.

Rich Washburn
Apr 94 min read


Visa Just Gave AI Agents a Credit Card. With Spending Limits.
There's a moment every parent knows. You hand your kid a credit card for the first time. You've set the limit. You've had the talk. And then you let go. Visa just had that moment with AI agents — and it changes everything about how autonomous commerce works.

Rich Washburn
Apr 94 min read


He Doesn't Know What Python Is. He's Running Python Scripts to Pull Business Data.
Eric is a sales guy. No technical background. Didn't do the HTML on his MySpace page. He's also built a fully automated business-in-a-box in financial services and is running Python scripts to pull live data from GoHighLevel. He calls it retard maxing. I call it the actual story of AI in 2026.

Rich Washburn
Apr 83 min read


The Era of Mathematical Leverage Has Begun. Here's What That Actually Means.
Every few centuries, something changes in how human civilization does work. Not the tools. Not the industry. The underlying logic of how capability compounds. We are living inside one of those moments right now.

Rich Washburn
Apr 85 min read


The Actress Who Just Outsmarted the AI Memory Industry
Milla Jovovich is best known for saving humanity in post-apocalyptic fiction. Last week, she may have done something more useful.

Rich Washburn
Apr 83 min read


The Signs Are Everywhere. Math Is Eating the Physical World Now.
Disney Research, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA just open-sourced a GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine. It's not just a robotics tool. It's the next proof that math is eating every constraint hardware can't solve.

Rich Washburn
Apr 85 min read


I Stayed Up Until 4am Playing With Google's New On-Device AI App. Here's What I Found.
I didn't plan to be awake at 4am last night. But I never do. I downloaded Google AI Edge Gallery on my iPhone and the next time I looked up it was past 4 in the morning.

Rich Washburn
Apr 74 min read


Jensen Huang Just Described Bitcoin Without Knowing It
Jensen Huang said AI needs a system of record to know what's actually true. He was describing enterprise software. But the logical architecture he outlined points somewhere else entirely.

Rich Washburn
Apr 65 min read


Anthropic Just Showed You Exactly Who They Are
Anthropic cut off 135,000 OpenClaw instances, handed its biggest developer ecosystem to OpenAI, then announced $30B in revenue and a multi-gigawatt compute deal — all in the same week. The pattern has a name.

Rich Washburn
Apr 65 min read


Google Just Handed the Open Source World a Nuclear Weapon
Google dropped Gemma 4 — four open-source models, Apache 2.0, running locally on consumer hardware, ranking #3 in the world. The open source agent community wired it into OpenClaw within hours. Here's why this changes everything.

Rich Washburn
Apr 65 min read


They Tried to Kill It. It Shipped Video.
Three days ago, Anthropic pulled the plug on OpenClaw. This morning, OpenClaw shipped native video and music generation. And Apple is about to show us what it looks like when you build the same orchestration layer on 1.5 billion devices.

Rich Washburn
Apr 65 min read


Compute Is the Only Play
TSMC just guided to $52–56 billion in capex for 2026. McKinsey puts the global data center race at $7 trillion. The infrastructure layer is the only play that matters.

Rich Washburn
Apr 53 min read


It Wasn't Good Enough. It Was Perfect. That's the Problem.
There's a specific kind of madness that lives inside people who build things. It kicks in the moment something actually works.

Rich Washburn
Apr 43 min read


Stop Looking for a Job. Build a Toolbox.
AI isn't replacing people. It's replacing unstructured effort. Here's the framework that changes everything — and it starts with one stupid small problem.

Rich Washburn
Apr 45 min read


Apple Just Got Beaten With Its Own Playbook
A vibe coding app made a commercial that looks more like Apple than Apple does. Then Apple pulled it from the App Store. The internet noticed.

Rich Washburn
Apr 35 min read


The Canary Is Dead
Five signals. One conclusion. The grid hit its limit at the very beginning of the demand curve — before 84% of humanity ever typed a prompt. The canary has been dead for a while.

Rich Washburn
Apr 33 min read


$710 Billion and Nowhere to Plug It In
$710 billion committed. Grid queues running 3-5 years. Virginia is full. The bottleneck isn't compute — it's power, and permitted energized land just became a new asset class.

Rich Washburn
Apr 34 min read


When Wall Street Builds a Team, Follow the Money
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Jefferies have all stood up dedicated AI infrastructure investment banking practices in the last 90 days. When the banks build teams, the capital follows.

Rich Washburn
Apr 34 min read


Welcome to the Future
Three people. One room. Fifteen calls. Two meetings playing simultaneously in the same ear. This is what the front lines of the AI infrastructure build-out actually look like.

Rich Washburn
Apr 23 min read


The Billion Dollar Gate
The minimum ticket to get a seat at the AI infrastructure table is now $1 billion. Wall Street is rebuilding itself to handle it.

Rich Washburn
Apr 23 min read


I Just Wanted to See If I Could. Now I'm Building a Wearable Interface to My Own AI. 🤣
I just wanted to see if I could build a wearable AI interface from scratch. Turns out I could. Meet the ARIA Node — and the moment my AI rewrote its own hardware interface.

Rich Washburn
Apr 13 min read


Retardmaxxing Is the Cheat Code. I've Been Doing It for Years.
Someone sent me a video this week and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it (or laughing). Watch it first. I'll wait: The premise: retardmaxxing . The act of not caring, not overthinking, and simply doing. The guy explains it with a bell curve. Far left: the actual idiot — blissfully happy, lives entirely in the moment. Far right: the overthinker — drowning in analysis, philosophizing himself into paralysis, technically brilliant, practically useless. At the peak: t

Rich Washburn
Apr 14 min read


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